Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was tests.
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Conservative
Bernard Généreux Conservative Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC
No, not from what I understand.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
You were not at the meeting, so you cannot talk about it.
Liberal
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
We had lists. We were asked to review the lists, but if we had known that these people were coming to testify, we would have arranged for something else.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
It is a practical matter, Mrs. Boucher. It is just so that we do not waste time on Thursday.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
I agree with that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
There are two groups. The clerk or someone else has to give people a bit of advance notice.
Conservative
Liberal
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
It is the committee that will decide the priorities, and so on. Something had to be put on the schedule for the Thursday meeting, and that is what was done.
Conservative
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
Mr. Chair, if it is okay with Mrs. Boucher, it is okay with me too.
I would like to talk a bit about the two witnesses who will be coming to the committee on Thursday. They are from the Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones hors Québec. That is all the French schools in the country.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Will that take an hour?
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
Yes.
Can you remind me what the second group is, Mr. Chair?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
It is the Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité Canada.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
We had put it on the schedule as well.
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
All right.
Now, can we agree on the way we are going to proceed?
You know that I am of two minds between immigration, which is essential in minority communities, and what has happened about the roadmap and the possibility of improving it.
I have no answer and I am asking for the committee's opinion. Is it possible to tell the executive director of the Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones to give a ten-minute presentation on immigration, and we will then ask questions for 20 minutes, and then to give a presentation on the roadmap and answer the questions that follow?
Last time, 80% of the time was devoted to the roadmap and 20% to immigration.
Mrs. Shanahan, you will be impressed.
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
Our committee is very efficient. We have matched people who will talk about two things: immigration and the roadmap.
That is a very good idea from my Conservative colleagues. Rather than have people come twice, we will ask them questions about both subjects. But please, let us get organized!
Conservative
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
So there will be a ten-minute presentation on immigration, and then there will be a 20-minute question period.
Conservative
